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The (.-foo instance) syntax will properly resolve to either a field or a no-arg method if the type of instance is known. However, in the reflective case, it will only resolve to a method. This behavior should match the non-reflective case. The method case always be forced by using (. foo (method)).

Approach: This case falls into Reflector.invokeNoArgInstanceMember() (this is the only place this method is used). InstanceFieldExpr now takes another flag (requireField) which will be set to true if "-field" and false if "field". InstanceFieldExpr will invoke (or emit) a call to Reflector.invokeNoArgInstanceMember() which now takes the same flag. If the flag is set to true, it first looks only for a field, otherwise it looks for a method and falls back to field which throws an error if necessary. I added a new invokeNoArgInstanceMember() with an arity to match the old arity - existing bytecode compiled on older Clojure versions will be trying to call this arity.

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You can't change the semantics of invokeNoArgInstanceMember - they are correct when not using '-'. We need to feed the info that '-' was used through InstanceFieldExpr and make field-first conditional on that.

Rich Hickey
added a comment - 20/Feb/14 7:24 PM - edited You can't change the semantics of invokeNoArgInstanceMember - they are correct when not using '-'. We need to feed the info that '-' was used through InstanceFieldExpr and make field-first conditional on that.